My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
AKIO MORITAI often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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Don’t do market research.
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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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